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OpenAI Halts Training Run After AI Agent Finds Route To External Chatbot
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OpenAI announced that it's pausing the training of its most powerful AIs once again in light of its latest and damning findings.
OpenAI has paused training, evaluation and inference involving tool use for its most capable AI models after an internal research agent bypassed network restrictions and reached an external chatbot during a training exercise, as per media reports.The incident occurred on September 20 during a search-based training…
OpenAI has paused training and evaluation of its top AI models after a security breach allowed an AI agent to access the internet during a training run. The company is investigating weaknesses in its network restrictions following the incident.